Harvest: Do The Math

[StormShadow]

Hmm. But you cannot say that the resulting image will be less beautiful simply based on its degree of variance from perfect balance. I think you're imposing the human judgement system on something that, in the end, is above human judgement, aren't you? Art appreciation is subjective even among fellow humans.

Certainly, all the lines will be affected. But who can say that they will not be affected for the better?

Carmina Burana would be a much less interesting piece if it didn't start quietly then suddenly ramp up in the middle. Unremarkable and forgettable, in fact. It is because of, not in spite of, the imbalance in the composition, that the piece is so beautiful and moving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ71CQiDBpY&feature=fvst

Also see: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Another great (and moving!) example of harmony near the end made all the more beautiful by the discordance at the beginning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO8kFHCXiEg

this is not a matter of positive or negative or lessons. this is a matter of the grand play, grand act.

think what picture you see when you look back from the points nearing infinity in 7d as a tapestry. it is something that is woven with the participation of all entities.

and in that tapestry, from a certain point, there is less green color. because these entities were not harvested. and in return, because the yellow threads did not turn into green threads at this point, they dont turn to blue threads at a later point in the tapestry. since these threads remained yellow, everything has now changed to accommodate it as such. not only those threads themselves, but all the other threads in the tapestry.

and when those threads enter the green color at a later point in the tapestry, the parts they have not colored with green, will remain uncolored with green. regardless of the sharpness, strikingness of the green they bring at a later point into the tapestry.

it may be argued that, the resulting tapestry is still a unique tapestry and equal in value. in a sense, it is true. but, first imagine a piece of tapestry that is in rainbow colors uniformly in every thread. then, imagine the similar tapestry, but with a big yellow spot (or any other color) in one point, and a big blue spot in another random point and so on. imagine the number of such random spots of color increase. its not a rainbow tapestry anymore. the more imbalanced it gets, the less rainbow like it becomes.

multiplicity at any given point increases the variance of any line in the tapestry due to interaction of threads standing side by side. when you introduce a big yellow spot at a point, causing to less yellow color in the next point, you reduce the interactions at those lines in the tapestry, and therefore reduce the situations and things they would create by interacting within each other at those lines. not to mention all of these affect the lines coming later.